Jennifer Tobin is Associate Professor with the Departments of Classics, History, and Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and holds her degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D.) and Stanford University. Her areas of specialization are Roman archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, and Anatolian archaeology, she is Director of Excavations for the Bir Madhkur Project in Jordan, and since 1997 she has been the Architectural Consultant to the Tel er Ras excavations in Israel. Professor Tobin has published and spoken widely, and has also recorded lectures for Modern Scholar.